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To: Rummyfan

Fifty years ago, on those hot, sweltering mosquito infested nights in SE Asia, not having bug repellent, I used to spray myself down with DDT laden bug killer. Soaked myself in it. It worked. And I’m still here.


12 posted on 05/21/2019 5:29:28 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

When I was a kid in New Orleans in the late 60’s the only thing that drew as much attention as the Ice cream truck in the neighborhood was the mosquito fogger truck spewing a cloud of DDT behind it.

We used to chase that thing on our bicycles riding in and out of the cloud like children following the Pied Piper.


16 posted on 05/21/2019 5:39:42 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

There were no mosquitos I ever felt while in the North.Lucky for us.

I never did take those little experimental Malaria pills they

pushed on us.


17 posted on 05/21/2019 5:42:31 PM PDT by Harold Shea (VN vet)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

You can drink it and it won’t hurt you.


20 posted on 05/21/2019 5:46:16 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
About sixty years ago we used to ride our bikes behind the DDT fogger trucks in Beautiful Beaufort and watch the mosquitoes drop out of the fog around us.

Too bad we all died early.

...oh wait...

34 posted on 05/21/2019 7:49:05 PM PDT by null and void (The press is always lying. When they aren't actively lying, they are actively concealing the truth.)
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